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Definition of "ivied" [i•vied]

  • Overgrown or cloaked with ivy: "Harvard's ivied edifices” ( Joseph P. Kahn). (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "ivied" in a sentence
  • "The house they mortgaged from a bank and lived in was standard, was ivied, was brick."
  • "It was an English garden in miniature, with potted orange trees, climbing roses, pink cabbage roses, larkspur, sweet-william, white lilac, and an ivied trellis railing running along the perimeter."
  • "The orange waste of copper tailings remains bare, but ivied trees crowd beside adits and encircle the fenced-off shafts."
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